Title: Adding “Comments” to non-WordPress Pages Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Adding “Comments” to non-WordPress Pages * [benkeen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benkeen/) * (@benkeen) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/) * Hi all, * First off, I LOVE WordPress. It’s been a breeze to install, configure and get running. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up. Fine family fun. * Anyway, I was wondering how you would go about adding the “comments” feature to non-Wordpress pages. Is it possible? I’ve custom written a number of pages which are quite complicated as is; all I want it to tack on the Comments feature at the bottom to allow people to remark on the page content. * Any suggestions would be most appreciated! 🙂 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-444770) * Convert your non-WP pages to WordPress [Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages) maybe? Then you can have comments. * Otherwise… no clue… can’t have a comment in WP without an associated Post/Page to hang it off of. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-444783) * Well, if you’ve got a few days (in other words, if you’re not on deadline….), I’ll write up what I did to make this sort of thing work. * But I won’t be able to get back to this until a week from today maybe. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-444792) * I know **_I_** would be rather interested to hear about it, vkaryl. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-444801) * Yah – I’ll post it here when I get back and get it into some sort of “might make sense” order. I had to do a really dirty hack to get it working right in an immediate sense (clients, y’know….), and I want to definitely try to get that part of it together without such a nasty workaround. * Will definitely be next week – I have the week from hell here beginning tomorrow at 0-dark-30. * In the meantime, you can see what I did for this particular client (including the extremely nasty hack) at [http://payrollemploymentgame.com/commentloop.php](http://payrollemploymentgame.com/commentloop.php) * [kiralmarch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiralmarch/) * (@kiralmarch) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445037) * Yes, I am trying to do exactly the same thing! Everything else on my site runs off a mySQL DB, too, so I was planning to hack the comment function to allow it to associate comments with another key. * Haven’t had time yet to dig through and figure out exactly how the comment functions work, though, so I’m curious to see/hear how someone else has done it. Thanks in advance! * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445038) * Y’know, I’m COMPLETELY embarrassed to say that I totally forgot to write this up. So I’m glad kiralmarch resurrected the thread. I’ve noted this on my paper planner and my PDA to-do list; I’ll try to get it together by the weekend. * Sorry! * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445039) * I can’t even reconstruct the ugly hack, since for some reason, I didn’t keep a copy of the previous file. * What I finally wound up doing was simply to install an instance of wp in its own subfolder after creating the database. Then on the commentloop.php page ( which resides in site root), I input the following as the very first line of the file (above even the doctype): * `` * which means that any comments left through the page get saved to the database per normal, and display according to standard criteria in wp-options. * Had the client not been pushing for “instant”, I would no doubt have figured that out first! * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445040) * … and just to be out of left-field, I recently found this nifty little thing: [http://js-kit.com/](http://js-kit.com/) * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445041) * Oh. Wow. Okay, you can come…. (and if you get THAT ref, you’re better than most….) * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445042) * Broken Arrow is about the only movie coming to mind. Am I close? * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445043) * Spot on! You’re only the second person in 10 years to get that…. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445044) * Loved that movie. 🙂 * “When we have to go to war against Utah, we’re going to kick a**, ya know?” * I was living in Utah when I saw the movie, that line cracked me up pretty hard. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445045) * It cracks me up EVERY TIME I watch it – because I’m STILL living in Utah! “Scare the cows, wake the farmers….”, not to mention “Wow.” “Yeah. That was a first for me too.” * I watch it several times a year – a guaranteed good time. Gonna have to find a dvd one of these days…. * [kiralmarch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiralmarch/) * (@kiralmarch) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445046) * That js-kit.com thing would be great, except that I can’t get it to work with my dynamically generated URLs. Posted on the thread there, and no one has been able to help. 🙁 * Vkaryl, thanks for posting your soln. I’m not sure I completely understand what you did, but I don’t think I want to do exactly the same thing. I want to put add/view comments on *many* non-wp pages on my site — a few thousand photo pages. I think it’s going to require hacking the post/comment ID system. * It looks possible, but I’ll probably break a bunch of stuff along the way. :-/ * One problem: Without an associated ID in the wp_posts table, comments won’t be recognized as open so people won’t be able to make them. The best workaround seems to be modifying the check for comment status in wp-comments-post.php so I can tell it to treat comments as open. (I think that’s better than adding dummy posts to the wp_posts table, and I don’t mind not being able to close comments on a post easily.) * Another (smaller) problem: In reading comments out of the DB, I’ll have to come up with an ID system for them that won’t interfere with the association of regular comments with wp_posts. Since it’s a numeric field, the only option I see is to start at the max value for the field and count down, betting that it will never meet my post count. (A good bet.) I can automatically assign that ID when I create each non-WP page. * Final problem: I’ll have to modify the comment_template function, since it looks up the post ID…I think I’ll have to feed it the post ID as a parameter and only let it look up if the parameter is null. * If anyone’s found a different way or has other thoughts, let me know!! Otherwise, I’ll tackle it this weekend, and let you know how it works out. Good thing it’s going to rain… * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-to-non-wordpress-pages/#post-445047) * Yes, please post back how it’s going. At this point, you might like to start a new thread…. 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